Remember that scene in the movie “La La Land,” where Rams mascot Rampage trips the night fantastic in a flamboyant ballroom dance number with macho Chargers mascot Boltman?

They drift across the starlit sky above the Griffith Park Observatory, observing everything and nothing wrong about what they’re doing.

All loosely based on a true horror story.

City of stars, are you shining for the NFL?

City of stars, two deplorables now — what the hell?

• Who’s about to make a bigger splash in the Pacific — one horn-headed franchise now under the watchful eye of a 30-year-old head coach trying to babysit a 22-year-old shotgun slinger, or a bolt of inspiration from an organization that sees value in a recent Buffalo Bills’ interim head guy who will get his fill of a kicking-and-screaming Philip Rivers?

Actually, that splash you just heard was Ryan Gosling, not OK with playing the lead in the “The Sean McVay Story,” going cannonball off the Hermosa Beach Pier. With Jeff Fisher as his spotter.

And that golf-clap round of applause? From every homegrown Raiders fan already living in your ’hood.

• Who in their right mind moves away from San Diego and chases a Hollywood fantasy unless it involves a) a girl or b) your parents have finally kicked you out of the basement after 55 years?

Dean “The Dream Killer” Spanos is doing this all backwards, telling his former home city to take one giant Qualcomm pill and chase it down with a gallon of tears.

No need to point out this pro football franchise was naturally birthed in L.A. and feels some need to make a prodigal, triumphant return, without the triumphant-ness or HBO committing a “Hard Knocks” camera crew.

Not yet, anyway.

Just a couple of particulars to sort out first.

As they await final construction of their Airbnb in Inglewood, the Chargers say they’ll get along just fine couchsurfing in Carson at the Galaxy’s soccer cinder-block facility.

No rush, brah.

It’s the same nuanced way as when Sir Donald Sterling punted his Clippers up to L.A. from S.D. back in the ’80s – didn’t they play a season or two on the outdoor courts of Venice Beach before the Sports Arena granted them homeless emergency assistance?

• The City Folk of Carson feels it achieved some consolation prize in all this? How many more landfills can it pave over to add more parking?

• As for that slick “LA” bayonet logo, or is that an electrifying lightning bolt — it’s already been reformatted to read “LA-ME” and “LA-ZY” and, the best, “LOL,” and the folks at LA Gear are concerned and gearing up for a trademark lawsuit because they think there could be some confusion and don’t want to share in the embarrassment.

“It looks like The Flash and a unicorn having sex on a Dodgers’ cap,” said one talk-radio show caller.

The Chargers team graphics department/Team Spanos Damage Control folks have quickly said that’s really just a temporary tattoo, something they threw together because they’ve only known for 15 years this might happen.

A perfect sign of what’s to come?

• Do you realize what just happened here: San Diego, taking its cue from L.A. 20-plus years ago, just cleared a major hurdle and the memory of John Hadl by ridding itself of a pro football albatross?

And now it has a giant cement stadium for college football and swap meets, RV shows and monster truck pulls. Just like our Rose Bowl, without the stale beer aroma.

The Spanos Family Values, sporting a reported net worth of $2.4 billion, saw no value in selling off a share of the franchise to finance their own facility.

Seem reasonable?

• Another vision: Chargers QB Rivers, with his eight kids kicking and screaming, trekking up the Mission Trail like Fr. Junipero Serra, bypassing the shells at Camp Pendleton, dropping a quarter back into the cup held by Dan Fouts as he sits on a corner in San Juan Capistrano, getting some directions from a sheepherder named Eric Dickerson, with the ultimate mission of stopping somewhere short of L.A.

What are the property values these days in Irwindale?

• By the time the Rams and Chargers cozy up to the Stanley Kroenke Kountry Kitchen down the street from Randy’s Donuts in 2019, what are the chances the California governor at that time doing the ceremonial ribbon snip will be The Honorable Rosey Grier?

The 84-year-old and only living member of the Rams’ “Fearsome Foursome” defensive line of the 1960s recently told the Santa Monica Daily Press: “I looked in the mirror and said, ‘What are you risking? I should run for governor if I want to see change in our communities.’”

So that’s why Grier, in his rose-colored goggles, insists he’s entering the race in 2018, should he still be somewhat upright and quasi-fearsome.

Sounds like the same rationale that guided Arnold Schwarzenegger to that same plum Sacramento job in 2003, which obviously prepared him for a “Celebrity Apprentice” career advancement.

Tom Hoffarth has been with the Daily News/Southern California News Group since 1992 as a general assignment sports reporter, columnist and specialist in the sports media. He has been honored by the Associated Press for sports columnists and honored by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association for his career work. His favorite sportscaster of all time: Vin Scully, for professional and personal reasons. He considers watching Zenyatta win the Breeders' Cup 2009 Classic to be the most memorable sporting event he has covered in his career. Go figure that.

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